{"id":158574,"date":"2025-09-21T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158574\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:05:07","slug":"police-called-after-local-under-18s-football-match-descends-into-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158574\/","title":{"rendered":"Police called after local under-18s football match descends into brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The under-18s match between Newport and Sunshine yesterday descended into chaos at Chirnside Park in Werribee, with footage showing punches being thrown by spectators and players.<\/p>\n<p>Newport had just won by 13 points when the violence began.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear what triggered the scuffle, however it all ended before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood a child was knocked over in the brawl.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffPolice said it is investigating the incident, along with the Western Football Netball League (WFNL).<\/p>\n<p>The WFN\ufeffL said it would not comment further but described the scuffle as &#8220;significant&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The under-18s match between Newport and Sunshine yesterday descended into chaos at Chirnside Park in Werribee, with footage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-158574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}